Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1929, Page 47

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Death Treasure 5 By R. A. (Copyright, 1929, SYNOPSIS: | gdetram Fotherbury has confessed the fmurder of Roper Bell by suicide. Pro. L Getective, seveals. the iy ouided him to nce which Fotherbury was the hidden incipal of Smithins, the fArm which de- ‘auded Redslade of Newlace. ard the rumors of buried treasure, he de- ou ronos againar Nis friend. obtamed eme ent wit ir secrets. Then he went to Newplace for | @ climactic finish. Redslade’s escape from | timed so he would be presegt ot the atic conelurion—e cibnes’ori- vented by Pell's death. CHAPTER XLIIL PEACE AGAIN. O the midnight scene, which Lax- ton and. I had watched, ‘Wis e: plained: Redslade and ‘Pell, though we thought it was a lone man, had just discovered the ab- bey treasures when Laxton's voleé frightened them. They stuffed Jewels into a bag and fled. Redslade continued: “You see, Fotherbury was trying all the time to cross Pell, but Pell crossed him. Pell's attack here in the library ‘was the last straw. Pell and I were going to confront him with the whole story, make him eat humble ple. We | ‘were comparatively rich. We meant to clear him out and recover Newplace at | our own terms. We had him between the pincers and we didn't reckon with | violence—" “Yet,” said I, “it seemed to me, Pell wasn't easy in his mind. Don’t you think he had some inkling of the risk | of yiolence?” “nli, yoi—oerluly. He anew Fotherbury and he knew his lllflln‘ That was why Pell insisted on hcp:“ now it was all over amd he thought he had PFother! , we'didn’t think violence was olnt all those ‘Who would have -l ury shot Pell .nd ran the risk ul to shoot himself rather than face what was ennlu You | didn’t see him because 't look . You were all stai 1t ?ell vy “But he was examined like the rest; the ding by firep] wasn't he? “And you were all ln n-nnt of him except Marling. That's why you saw nothing. But I'm cbnvinced that lnrlin' saw_it.” And then I nulled the awful look in ln.run.- mpu-llke face during that 'n' " Laxton went on. “After Potl ry 'had_ecried ~out his homrolmand and Easterly had ex- ll.nlnufll body, h§ did what Tl .do uan got up. lnd.:’:lked to the tele- phone by the fi “He called Wayn slipped back the caten ohhe um- gfl here and raised it—" ‘We strained our eyes tn watch Lax- ton. He closed the cove: ‘ the tele- phmn desk and held up a¥little re- ‘volver. “T found it the day before yuumy ‘Why he didn’t remove it Aamu I can't say; partly fear and pa: that it was the safest hiding ““That old man!—so v-enble. with afr—" grand “My dear Mr. orcno!en " sald Lax- long.id decelved lomger. e e s Yaiate professor of arc! lon’ ve Mr. Redslade hllnlef(“nn now fully realizses how this dirty usurer did him in! mcmm-maemmc “Just over £10, M sald Redslade. “And they lhc: !Du!h.;}e the same sum. ing id ex- for the vnoln thi actly £20, nd I suppose it's worth five times at least. When that wu evident. I knew 'hhdhlhd?ellor d him killed. But how? I traced every movement of every man. The man who dictated every movement was Fotherbury. I walked about between the door and the nev corner trying for some dodnw mneu of an imaginary pistol. And t!nn I lifted the telephone neelvor just as Fotherbury had done. My own back 'ml.ld have hidden me from everybody in the room except the man by my llde But still there was no hiding place i view—till my right hand nlbunlly fell on the l".tle desk cover and it mo “By Jovel” sald I. “Marling! Tt struck my -nerves horribly at that mo- ment. Marling dropped his spectacle- case with a clatter on the stones, while Fotherbury sto6d at the'telephone. He must have seen—" “Marling had necves, 'no“ nid Lax- “Ol We all looked n Mllfle. hu dark 'yu gazing throu it u he t.he happiest day d my life,” said he. “But I've lost Rather than lose Pell I'd ; | fect friend. No man could be worthy Having | Marling was attracted | * Smithins and thus uncovered | the world eu_ J. Walling ‘Wm. Morrow Oe.) have stayed in that awful prison an- other five years. Pell—he was the per- jof Pell. . . . Redsinde fell silent. When I looked up, his head had sunk to the table on | his folded arms. . . . . . . By the end of October the wonder- ful thing had happened to me. I was on’the terrace of the Monte Ho- 00 feet above the town of ‘Pnnchll looking down upon a sea than which' nathing in the world was bluer— exoept the eyes of Mrs. Tom Grenofen, who sat beside me. We discussed & let- ter from Somerfleld. “The excitement's died down,” wrote. “Redslade’s lawyers have a deal with the Fotherbury Club and | that deleterious object has disappeared from - the landseape. Redsiade’s not very rich; but he's got Newplace and Miss Vandenessen that was, and I don't think you could persuade him to play ‘the | bridge at a pehny a thousand. The mwn confiscated the treasure, of "The truth about old Fotherbury comes out by degrees. It's astonishing. Laxton says he was one of t,he mnat notorious gamblers in Europe to three years ago, and Redslade 'll ovnly the fattest of his many pigeons. | “Redsiade and Laxton are - sworn brothers. Laxton told us how old ‘Potherburv discovered the jewelry. | He'd never have found it if TLaxton | hldnt almost pushed it at him! “Laxton had two men on the look- They saw Fotherbury come down | out. £ lhe diggings and take the stuff away e night before the end, tracsed him £ the lbrery ang wal pu& it in the old chest. They into_the library the same night, twok put on I:lm the lock of the chest out an Shameful Pimples Made Others Turn Away ..but almost overnight they turned to admire “Pimples, blackheads and ugly blotches nearly drove me mad. Squeeszing made my skin look worse. 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